I’ll go first … The first purpose-built church was not constructed until 290 AD. Christians didn’t “go to church” for over 250 years after Jesus.
If you were to start at the equator and head north, you will eventually begin to head south. If you start at the same point on the equator and "Head East", you will never head west.
The girl at the Rhode Island school of Design who came up with the term psycho killer* - who fellow student David Byrne turned into the Talking Heads song of the same name - was killed by a psycho killer. * the term referred to someone who was socially killing it at the moment. ex. Damn, look at Anne over there being a psycho killer chatting up those hot dudes.
10! = 6 weeks 10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 3,628,800 which is exactly the number of seconds in 6 weeks
If Donald Trump had been captain of the Titanic, he would’ve told the passengers they were just stopping for ice.
If you don’t like processed foods, don’t chew your food because then you’re just processing your food. Deeper: if you don’t like chemicals, don’t eat because food is chemicals.
Fun Fact: DNA and indeed biology as we know it is up for grabs. Sidenote: doggy DNA tests sometimes come back human. And my thirty pound dog with a luxuriant mane came back chihuahua.
In Alaska every individual who enters a liquor store must show ID even if not a purchaser. Also, more Alaskans are killed by moose than by bears.
The Japanese language had no indigenous writing system, and they borrowed from Chinese characters. Over time, the Japanese adapted the characters to create modern written Japanese. This was cool to me since Japanese and Chinese are not linguistically related; they have different grammar, syntax, and phonology. For example, Chinese languages/dialects are tonal while Japanese is not.
My wife and I hosted Japanese exchange students at one time. That’s when I realized spoken Japanese is somewhat staccato as opposed to sing-songy as with Mandarin speaskers.
